Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lyko

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lúnˀka (“bast”).

Noun

*lỳko n

1. bast

Declension

Declension of *lỳko (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lỳko	*lỳcě	*lỳka
genitive	*lỳka	*lỳku	*lỳkъ
dative	*lỳku	*lỳkoma	*lỳkomъ
accusative	*lỳko	*lỳcě	*lỳka
instrumental	*lỳkъmь, *lỳkomь*	*lỳkoma	*lỳkȳ
locative	*lỳcě	*lỳku	*lỳcě̄xъ
vocative	*lỳko	*lỳcě	*lỳka

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *lyčьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: лы́ка (lýka)
  • Russian: лы́ко (lýko)
  • Ukrainian: лико (lyko)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лꙑко (lyko)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: ли́ко (líko)
  • Macedonian: лико (liko)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ли̏ко

    Latin script: lȉko

  • Slovene: líkọ (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lýko
    • Czech: lýko
      • Moravian (Mistřice): u̯iko
  • Kashubian:
  • Polabian:
  • Polish: łyko
  • Slovak: lyko
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: łyko
    • Lower Sorbian: łyko

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лыко”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress